{"id":4372,"date":"2018-05-03T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thrivetogether.com.au\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:25:50","slug":"quick-guide-to-refined-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/05\/03\/quick-guide-to-refined-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Guide to Refined Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nRefined sugar is processed raw sugar.
\nIt’s easy for the body to digest and breakdown and causes blood sugar spikes quickly.
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\nRemember this when reading your food labels:
\n1 tsp sugar = 4.2 g sugar = 16 calories\/67 Kj<\/p>\n

The WHO recommends 25g\/6 tsp sugar per day
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\nAdded refined sugar can go by these names on food labels:
\nfructose, corn syrup, palm sugar, rice syrup, malt syrup…<\/p>\n

For a full list, see this choice sugar labelling article<\/a>.
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\nRefined sugars we use in cooking are: corn syrup, table sugar, white sugar, granulated sugar, confectioners sugar\/powdered sugar.
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When trying to reduce your refined sugar intake, there are some things you will need to remember. Here is a quick reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9355,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.thrivetogether.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}